Daily Roundup

Around the League: April 3, 2013

As we get set to begin the 2013 season, we introduce another new feature here at Baseball Prospectus. Thanks to Jason Martinez and Clint Chisam of MLB Depth Charts, we'll now be bringing you daily news, notes, transactions, injury updates, and notable performances from the previous day's games...throughout the entire season! (For the first full week of the new campaign, this feature will be completely free to all readers!)

And if you like what you see here, don't forget to check out MLBDC's Insider subscription (http://www.mlbdepthcharts.com/2013/02/mlbdepthcharts-insider.html), which also includes starting pitcher rankings and matchups, top 25 batter vs pitcher stat rankings, lineup tracker (includes lineups from past 7 games), rotation report, stat tracker, and more!

Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo indicated Monday that he's open to a contract extension for SS Ian Desmond.

Giants 1B Brandon Belt was not in Tuesday's lineup due to a stomach bug.

C Wilin Rosario was replaced in Rockies' lineup Tuesday by Yorvit Torrealba who was catching Jorge De La Rosa. It sounds like Torrealba will be De La Rosa's personal catcher, at least for the time being.

American League:

Athletics SP Bartolo Colon will return from the suspended list to start Saturday against the Astros.

John Harper of the New York Daily News was told by a source that 2B Robinson Cano wants to get a deal done with the Yankees "sooner rather than later." Cano fired his agent Scott Boras earlier Tuesday in hopes of getting a deal done sooner.

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Great new feature. As the season progresses, will the "<< Previous Column" function for the Daily Roundup be able to go all the back to day 1 of the season, i.e., March 31, or will there be a limit to the number of Previous Columns we are able to access (for instance, say, one week's worth of previous columns)? Thank you.